"I think it does feel like a landmark – there are a lot of landmarks happening," Danai Gurira told Digital Spy on the red carpet at the film's European premiere in London today (February 8), citing Ava DuVernay's upcoming A Wrinkle in Time, as well as Mudbound and Get Out's awards show successes as some of the new landmark narratives getting attention.

"You're seeing narratives come out, also on American television, a lot of black women are starting to helm television shows," she added. "That is a really exciting thing, and it's something that doesn't make any sense to go backwards. It doesn't make any sense.

"We have so many stories to tell and our perspective is rich and brings a diversity and brings something that the world is being starved of and I think people realise that – and they realise that of course there's a market for it.

"I think this sets a stunning precedent that I don't think the world can go back from."